Excel and Power BI in the East Midlands
Friendly, practical one-day courses for your team, taught at your business in the East Midlands, including Nottingham and Derby or live online. Up to 10 people per session.

Excel and Power BI training in the East Midlands is available from The Blue Star Academy: one-day, hands-on courses taught live by Rachel at your business in the East Midlands, including Nottingham and Derby or live online, for groups of up to 10 delegates. There are five courses, from Foundation Excel to Further Power BI, priced from £500 per session at your premises or £450 online.
At a glance
| Courses | Foundation Excel, Intermediate Excel, Advanced Excel, An Introduction to Power BI, Further Power BI |
|---|---|
| Length | One day per course, taught live |
| Group size | Up to 10 delegates (smaller teams pay less) |
| Delivery | At your business in the East Midlands, including Nottingham and Derby, or live online |
| Price at your premises | From £500 per session, depending on the course |
| Price online | From £450 per session, depending on the course |
| Travel | I do not usually charge for travel. Tell me where you are based and we can talk it through. |
| Bundles | Bundles from £1,275 at your premises or £1,190 online, which costs less than booking the courses one by one |
| Taught by | Rachel, with 20 years in the workplace and 12 years teaching |
Courses available in the East Midlands

Foundation Excel
£500 at your premises, £450 online
Little or no Excel experience? In one friendly day you will go from finding your way around the screen to building tidy, correct, printable spreadsheets with confidence.
Intermediate Excel
£550 at your premises, £500 online
You can find your way around Excel. Now learn to build spreadsheets that check themselves, flag what needs attention and summarise thousands of rows in a few clicks.
Advanced Excel
£650 at your premises, £600 online
Stop rebuilding the same reports every week. Learn lookups, dashboards, macros, Power Query and PowerPivot, and make Excel do the repetitive work for you.
An Introduction to Power BI
£650 at your premises, £600 online
A practical, step-by-step introduction to Power BI. Connect to your data, shape it, build interactive reports and share them in a single day.
Further Power BI
£850 at your premises, £800 online
Build more efficient, interactive and secure Power BI reports. Advanced transformations, DAX, custom slicer panels and row-level security, hands-on in one day.
Bundles
Bundles from £1,275 at your premises or £1,190 online, which costs less than booking the courses one by one. See all prices
Teams I have trained across the East Midlands
- Further education (FE) providers
- Private training providers
- Charities
- Engineering companies
- Manufacturing
- Sporting venues
- Hospitality
- Aerospace
- Railway companies
- Law firms
- Environmental specialists
- Motor vehicle
- Specialist education centres
- Housing associations
How and where I teach
In your training room
If you have a training room or suite, we can use it.
Live online
Taught live on screen, so your team can join from wherever they are, including from elsewhere in the UK.
At your office
I come to your workplace and teach your team there.
At a venue you hire
If you arrange a venue for the day, I will teach there.
Where I travel across the East Midlands
Cities and towns
Nottingham and Derby
Derbyshire
Chesterfield, Matlock, Buxton and Ashbourne
Nottinghamshire
Mansfield, Newark-on-Trent, Worksop and Retford
I do not usually charge for travel. Tell me where you are based and we can talk it through. I also teach live online for teams anywhere in the UK.
What delegates said
First course in a long time that I have gone away having actually learned something. The tutor was great, knowledgeable and very engaging.
The course was really interactive and easy to follow along with the course leader's screen shared in front of me. The activities were really useful to practise applying the knowledge.
Questions from teams across the East Midlands
How far will you travel across the East Midlands, and when does an extra charge apply?
Let me know where you are based and we can talk it through. I do not usually charge for travel.
Our team is spread across several sites or towns. Can you run the same course on different days at each site, or one online session for everyone?
Yes, I can do either, or both.
Can people from outside the East Midlands, or across the UK, join an online course with you?
Yes, they can. I run live online sessions that teams can join from anywhere in the UK.
Training for teams across several sites
The same course at each site
I can run the same course on different days at each of your sites.
One online session for everyone
Or run one live online session that the whole team joins, wherever they are in the UK.
Straightforward travel
I do not usually charge for travel. Tell me where you are based and we can talk it through.

Taught by me, Rachel
After 20 years in the workplace and 12 years teaching, I know what people actually need from Excel and Power BI.
I am based in the East Midlands and deliver training at businesses across the region, including Nottingham and Derby. Based somewhere else? Get in touch, because I may still be able to help, and I also teach live online.